Home PublicationsL&LIssuesVolume 25 (1997-1998) April (No. 7)

Follow that Mouse

Using Just the Internet to Teach
High School Biology

By Patrick Greene

Patrick Greene discusses how high school biology teachers can supplement (or even replace) their textbooks with Internet-based science content.

Biology Web Resources

Classroom Resources

Note. These Web sites were valid when this issue of L&L went to press. We have no control over these sites, though, and the Web is very volatile. Please let us know if you find a broken link, and we’ll do our best to update it.

• African Primates at Home: www.indiana.edu/~primate/primates.html
• Aquatic Ape Theory: www.geocities.com/Athens/5168/aat.html
• Arizona State University Photosynthesis Center: http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/Default.html
• Biomedical Visualization (BVis): www.bvis.uic.edu
• Cells Alive: www.cellsalive.com
• Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment: www.cais.com/gewex/gewex.html
• Human Genome Project: www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html
• Leiden University Biophysics Department www.biophys.leidenuniv.nl/Research/
• Lewis Research Center: www.lerc.nasa.gov/LeRC_homepage.html
• Mendel Web: www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/mirrors/MendelWeb/
• Microworld Resources and News: www.mwrn.com
• Monterey Bay Aquarium: www.mbayaq.org
• Nebraska Behavioral Biology Group: http://cricket.unl.edu/nbbg.html
• Ocean Planet: http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html
• Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/pin/pin.html
• Scotty, the T-Rex at Eastend, Saskatchewan: www.lights.com/scotty/
• University of Otago Department of Marine Science: http://telperion.otago.ac.nz:800/Marine/marine.htm
• Virtual Cell: http://ampere.scale.uiuc.edu/~m-lexa/cell/cell.html
• Virtual Fly Lab: www.west.it/ensites/vfl.htm
• Virtual Garden: www.vg.com

Standards and Lesson Plans

• Sunshine State Standards: http://standards.fgcu.edu/standards

Software Resources

• Digital Chisel by Pierian Spring Software
• HyperStudio by Roger Wagner Publishing
• mPower by Multimedia Design Corporation

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